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1st Edition

Early Chinese Cinema and Two-Way World Flows

Edited By Jane M. Gaines, Kristine Harris Copyright 2027
214 Pages
by Routledge

Early Chinese Cinema and Two-Way World Flows explores how the term ‘transnational’ became a condition—a site of translations, transactions, and transitions in Chinese cinema. Drawing on a broad range of previously untapped sources by and about female directors, writers, actresses, and moviegoers, including personal recollections from the family of female director Marion Evelyn Hong, this book... Read more

Introduction: Early Chinese Cinema and Two-way World Flows

Jane Gaines, Kristine Harris, Yanfei Song and Xinyi Zhao

 

1. The ‘Great Wall’ that Crossed the Ocean: Its rise and Fall—A Preliminary Study of the History of Changcheng Film Company

Mo Chen, Zhiwei Xiao and Yanfei-Song

 

2. Rose Fong Goes for a Ride: Women, Moviegoing and Social Change in Early 20th Century San Francisco Chinatown

Kim K. Fahlstedt

 

3. The ‘Queer Woman’ Between Shanghai and Nanyang, 1920s—1930s

Xuelei Huang

 

4. Playing the minzu/minzoku Card: Melodramas of Race and Nation in Colonial Manchuria

Xinyi Zhao

 

5. Sticking with Trans: Reconsidering Chinese American Cinema through Anna May Wong

Yiman Wang


6. Love and duty (1931): Chinese Melodrama and the ‘Contradictions of Modernity’

Jane M. Gaines

 

7. Circuits of Mobility in Love and Duty

Kristine Harris

 

8. Marion Evelyn Hong Before and After the Curse of the Quon Gwon (1916)

Lisa Kumaradjaja and Chris Kumaradjaja

 

9. Introduction to the New York State Motion Picture Division Film Script Collection (1924 – 1937): Early Chinese Film Export

Yan-fei Song

Biography

Jane M. Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University, Professor Emerita of Literature and English, Duke University, holds the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Award &  an honorary doctorate (Stockholm University), published Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era, Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

Kristine Harris is Associate Professor of History and Core Faculty in Asian Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. With a research focus on film and media, visual culture, and gender studies in twentieth-century China, she has served on the Steering Committee of Women and Film History International since 2022.

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